Popular Culture
- Miller′s face adorned the U.S. Navy recruiting poster "above and beyond the call of duty".
- In 1942, Miller′s actions were dramatized on the CBS radio series They Live Forever. The Gwendolyn Brooks poem Negro Hero (1945) is narrated from Miller′s point of view. Although he was not identified by name, he was portrayed by Elven Havard in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!.
- In Michael Bay′s 2001 film Pearl Harbor, Miller was portrayed by Academy Award-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
- In 2007, historian Bill O'Neal published Doris Miller: Hero of Pearl Harbor.
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